18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.



Ver. 18. There is no fear in love] But complacence and acquiescence in the person beloved.



Perfect love casteth out fear] Timorem scilicet servilem illum, non amicalem. (Beda in Pro_1:1-33)



Because fear hath torment] Quem metuunt, oderunt, Whomsoever men fear, they hate, saith the proverb. And odium timorem spirat, saith Tertullian. Hatred hath fear, which sets the soul on a rack, as it were, and renders it restless.